The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-08
Basa-Rali Notes.

At South Bend, yesterday. the Green Stock
ings defeated the Logansport CLUB 8 to 0.
The battery for the home team to-day will be
Shreve and Meyers. and for Detroit. Conway
and CAMEL.
The sixty-third game provided for in the sea-
son-ticker contract was PLAYED Yesterday, ana
to-day's game will be benefit to the club.
Browns hunt to third in the second inning
yesterday rather took Deacon White by sur
prise. The umpire declared it foul. however,
and relieved him of his anxiety.
Yesterdays tie game will be played off this
afternoon and it will therefore be the last one
of the regular League series instead of an exhi-
bition game, as previously announced.
Mondays game between divisions of the home
team will he in the interest OF Valentine. the
umpire The admission will be 25 and so cents.
Tickets are now sale at Paul krauss's store
St. Louis made the best record as tail-ender
in 1855, winning thlrty-six games that season.
This record has been eaualied by Indianapolis
and if the game to-day is won, the homo club
will beat all previous tail end records.
Manager Foge return sd from his North
western trip last evening. While he
signed new players, he feels confident that
Foster will play with Indianapolis next year,
and probably others Of the crack players OF the
Northwest
One feature about yesterdays game was the
fact that neither pitcher sent n man TO first
on called balls. Several times four balls were
called. but the next one was sure TO be strike
In this respect the game has not been duplicated
on the home grounds this year.
McGeachy's wonderful work at center yester-
dav has not been equaied here this season. Some
of his catches were made by jumping two or
three feet in the air, and others with one hand
while running at full speed. He received several
ovatioas from the crowd for his phenomenal
plays.
The game this afternoon will be the last League
one of the season, and both clubs will do their
utmost to win. It will be called at 3:l5, as to
admit of playing the full nine innings, and X
the home team will only give their pitcher as
good support in the field they gave Boyle yes
terday there will be doubt as to the result.
Quite a mum Der of the spectators thought that
umpire Valentines decisions yesterday were in
favor of the homo team, but in reality they were
very evenly divided. In the second inuing he
called Browns hit to third foul; in she fourth
Brouthers allowed to take first when it
looked like he was clearly out, and in the eighth
Richardson was declared safe at the homo plato
when it looked like Myers had a clean put-ont.
He also a little severe in calling balls on
Boyle, making him SPLIT the center of the plate
every time for strike. None of his rulings in
which hs gave the doubt to Indianapolis in any
way affected the score and the only one on which
there was any doubt in the minds of the scorers
in allowing Shomberg to take first III the
sixth what appeared to be dead ball instead
OF belog hit on the body with 1t.
In the sixth inning, yesterday. when Seery
scored on Denny's out to center, and before
Sbomberg was put out on the double play,
someone in the grand stand asked the umpire il
it counted. Without giving the matter any
thought he answered that it did He
changed his mind, however, when he had time
to look at the rules, and the entered on
the black board. There is some question wheth-
er the umpire has any right to make a ruling
on a case OF this kind. The third not
put out in trying to reach first base hit Of
his own but was caught off the base on the next
batter's out but in the meantime the runner
had scored. The had much right to be
counted as if ShoInberg had got back to his base
safely and then went out on the next batters
hit. Manager Watkins thought the umpire had
|, right to change his decision after the inning
had been passed. but as it clearly case in
which the official scorer had more to do than the
umpire the result could have been affected
whether the umpire had ruled on it or not